Hi,

I'm looking to move to Sheffield at the start of November, have some friends living just off eccleshall rd (five mins from the Spar) and would like to move close to there, can anyone tell me whereabouts are the nicest places?
and where I would find accommodation to let there, preferably in a house share? Don't really know where to start except for here..

I'm 23, graduate, not looking for anything too expensive, any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!!

oh.. and why does the mail icon next to my topic have a big hole in it? can't work it out...

its a post you have a comment on. so you can find them easily!

smart eh!

Hunters Bar, Eccy rd area is student central, and so not really the nicest places.

S10 is nice! :-) up past hallamshire hospital

Originally posted by some_boy

Hunters Bar, Eccy rd area is student central, and so not really the nicest places.

S10 is nice! :-) up past hallamshire hospital


Absolute rubbish. Hunters Bar may be full of students but most people would still regard it a nice area, especially for a young professional. And S10 just past the Hallamshire Hospital is Broomhill..... also a student area, so you contradict yourself there.

Originally posted by James001


I'm 23, graduate, not looking for anything too expensive, any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!!

Sheffield is one of the few cities where a vast number of students do live in some of the "nice" areas.

Ask your friends to check out newsagent windows in the Sharrow Vale Rd area.

Also usually always postings on the accomodation (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=42)
section of this forum.

You have a few areas around Ecclesall Road - Nether Edge (S7/11), HB (S10/11), Sharrow (S7). All pretty reasonable areas - isn't Kenwood area around there?

Alex

Thanks for your help, I'll keep looking on here and check out the newsagent windows when I'm there on Wednesday.

All the nice areas of Sheffield are now dominated by students.
I am looking to buy a house in either Broomhill, top of Crookes or Ranmoor.
Apart from Ranmoor, Ecclesall, Botanical Gardens, Crookes, Broomhill, Walkley are areas with a huge student population.
I just viewed a potentailly lovely old house on Harcourt Rd.
I was told that the Road has now tipped over in the balance between families and students.
Students are in the majority.
Alll 1 side of the Road was occupied by students.
I have 2 kids and want to get a big family house.
It seems that I am unable to do so, unless I live in a densely populated student area.

Originally posted by espadrille
All the nice areas of Sheffield are now dominated by students.


Look at S6 instead... Loxley, Oughtibridge, Worrall, Bradfield most definitely are big-family-house and not student areas. They are nice, rural and in good catchments - may not have the immediate cachet of somewhere like Ranmoor, but they don't have its sense of superiority either.

Originally posted by espadrille
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It seems that I am unable to do so, unless I live in a densely populated student area. [/B]

What about Crosspool? It is one of the few really nice suburbs where there are mainly professional families and very few students. Also it is on the edge of lovely country with excellent schools - Lydgate Infants, Juniors and Tapton comp. There is also Fulwood and Wadsley.

S11 ie Ecclesall is the place where anybody who knows anything about Sheffied would choose to live . Just ask Blundells or any other Estate agents and they will tell that. Thats no disrespect to any other neighbourhoods either as there are some nice houses round fulwood etc .

Ecclesall Road is diverse as you have student and young living towards the bottom where all the bars and restauraunts are but as you go further up you get the more affluent.

Originally posted by espadrille
Apart from Ranmoor, Ecclesall, Botanical Gardens, Crookes, Broomhill, Walkley are areas with a huge student population.

Ecclesall barely has any students at all, unless of course you mean the Ecclesall Rd area as opposed to the mature leafy suburb up the road?